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NYers to NYPD: 'I Do Not Consent to Being Searched'
The Village Voice ^
| July 21st, 200
| by Chisun Lee
Posted on 07/22/2005 11:06:07 AM PDT by BigFinn
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To: savedbygrace
IT'S NOT EVERYDAY THAT YOU GET FOLKS AT FR AGREEING WITH THE VILLAGE VOICE.
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posted on
07/22/2005 11:51:36 AM PDT
by
durasell
(Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
To: Stu Cohen
Please repost that to SandyInSeattle, who made that claim.
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posted on
07/22/2005 11:51:47 AM PDT
by
savedbygrace
("No Monday morning quarterback has ever led a team to victory" GW Bush)
To: BigFinn
This IS stupid. Random bag searches? How about searching Mideastern men and randomly searching Mideastern women. Profiling works and is the only sensible answer.
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posted on
07/22/2005 11:51:53 AM PDT
by
Archon of the East
("universal executive power of the law of nature")
To: Alberta's Child
You and I disagree on free(unfair) trade but we sure do agree on this issue.
164
posted on
07/22/2005 11:52:47 AM PDT
by
superiorslots
(Free Traitors are communist China's modern day "Useful Idiots")
To: kellynla
I see that the lesson of the Life and Miracles of Col. Glenn is utterly lost on you.
Pathetic.
165
posted on
07/22/2005 11:52:50 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: durasell
166
posted on
07/22/2005 11:53:22 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Hemingway's Ghost
Just what the hell are we fighting the terrorists for, if not the "freedom" to walk from point A to point B without having to prove your innocence to a cop? Absolutely dead on. Half the people on this thread are ready to surrender the entire BOR as long as it makes us "safer".
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posted on
07/22/2005 11:53:25 AM PDT
by
xsrdx
(Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas)
To: kellynla
wake up to the fact that WE ARE AT WAR Uh. Maybe this is one of the reasons that the President should have asked Congress for a declaration of war.
When they started the manditory govt searches (long before 9/11) to get on air planes, I suggested that the same logic would allow them to search everyone who want to ride the subway. And next it will be your home. I suggest that probable cause is still necessary, like being an unshaven, 15-35 year-old, foreign looking male.
ML/NJ
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posted on
07/22/2005 11:53:27 AM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: durasell
Uh, just take a second to think. It's not about the actual search. It's about the potential for a search that might discourage the the bad guys. Get it? This is what I get -- there are about 1,000 different ways to inflict a terrorist attack on the U.S. or NYC that don't involve subways.
You are severely kidding yourself if you think searches at subway stations make us any safer.
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posted on
07/22/2005 11:53:32 AM PDT
by
gdani
(While terrorists are busy planning the *next* attacks we work to prevent their *previous* attacks)
To: SandyInSeattle
There's no constitutional right to get on a subway I think there is if it is public transportation, paid by you ... the public.
A private taxi is another matter, but I think you do have a consitutional right to get on a subway.
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posted on
07/22/2005 11:53:38 AM PDT
by
Stu Cohen
(Press '1' for English)
To: kellynla
I appreciate your risking life and limb to protect our Consitutional rights. I'm sorry it offends you so much when we exercise them.
To: Sabramerican
What if they search you and find from a joint to illegally downloaded MP3 Best to leave that illegal stuff at home if you are going to ride the NY subway.
To: gdani
It makes us marginally safer. It's one thing out of probably a couple of thousand things that I bet on every day that I go out and about.
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posted on
07/22/2005 11:55:21 AM PDT
by
durasell
(Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
To: Wallace T.
Profiling on race alone may not work there Well, not to mention that any terrorist group with half a brain is busy recruiting caucasians & women to carry out their evil deeds.
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posted on
07/22/2005 11:55:33 AM PDT
by
gdani
(While terrorists are busy planning the *next* attacks we work to prevent their *previous* attacks)
To: Wolfie; All
I have to post this again, I think:
"If you have done nothing wrong, comrade, then you have nothing to fear."
- Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria (1899 - 1953), chief of the Soviet Secret Police (NKVD) under Stalin.
![](http://ns5.onthespothosting.net/~rulers/beria.jpg)
Lavrenti Beria was one of the cruelest leaders in a regime known for its brutality. He first reached a position of power by working his way up the police organization in the Soviet republic of Georgia. In 1938, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin summoned him to Moscow to work as the deputy to the chief of the Soviet secret police (NKVD). Within months the chief had disappeared and Beria had replaced him. During the purges of the 1930s, many Soviet leaders issued lists of people they wanted arrested and shot, but Beria may have been the only one who personally got involved in torturing his victims. It is said that he invented the saying "Comrade, if you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear," a line spoken with heavy irony by NKVD officers as they took political prisoners into custody during Stalin's purges.
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posted on
07/22/2005 11:55:35 AM PDT
by
Oberon
(What does it take to make government shrink?)
To: Sabramerican
On what is supposed to be a Conservative Constitutional website
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posted on
07/22/2005 11:56:01 AM PDT
by
Sandy
To: ArrogantBustard
Quote: I've seen plenty of your posts on this forum. You're smarter than this. I'm beginning to wonder if somebody from the DUmpster has hijacked your account.
Agree. What up Kellyna? You and I are always on the same page.
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posted on
07/22/2005 11:56:03 AM PDT
by
superiorslots
(Free Traitors are communist China's modern day "Useful Idiots")
To: RedRover
Now there's a substantive argument...
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posted on
07/22/2005 11:56:10 AM PDT
by
Oberon
(What does it take to make government shrink?)
To: kellynla; Sonny M
Just taking a stab at this, but NYPD cops may view the random search as fruitless. Little old women and babies are not terrorist bombers - searching them means nothing. Profiling is a tool that is not being used in NY - although it is used effectively in many other law enforcement capacities.
I may be wrong, but I know cops don't like to waste their time.
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posted on
07/22/2005 11:56:14 AM PDT
by
Cathy
To: AdamSelene235
Now where have I seen this before, ah yes, Moscow.
I too have seen it first hand on the street and in the Metro in Moscow. Also a few guys with submachine guns and the OMON in body armor.
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posted on
07/22/2005 11:56:27 AM PDT
by
zencat
(The universe is not what it appears, nor is it something else.)
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